does cannabis legalization actually equate to decriminalization of nature or people? The author proposes a number of eye-opening and intellectually stimulating ideas regarding the past, present, and future of cannabis. Herein, we discover a nearly complete genetic history of the cannabis plant in modern times. Tracing the various cannabis strains back to the 1960's beginning with the non-patentable "landrace" strains of cannabis. A landrace cannabis strain is one that developed in its natural environment, which has never been crossed with any other variety. By asking tough questions, the author asks us to re-assess our vision of who controls cannabis, fundamentally, The vision of the author and other writers break through strongly with the following quotes, "my point is that when it comes to cannabis, it's mostly rediscovery. Recently, a report came about about the effectiveness of cannabis in combination with morphine when treating pain, as if some new discovery. Reality: they were selling cannabis-morphine mixtures for pain 150 years ago. If you think that O'Shaughnessy invented and was the first to create a cannabis tincture and market it, you are wrong, Doctors of Ayurveda have been making tinctures as medicine for thousands of years. Instead of using food grade glycerin as I use today, they used honey. This knowledge that O'Shaugnessy got in India, he applied to British pharmacopoeia. How can they patent genetics or techniques that have been public information for thousands of years? It blows my mind that Mexico, Colombia or Afghanistan have not moved against GW Pharmaceuticals ("GW") (a partner with Bayer AG, "Bayer"), since genetics for Sativex came from those countries. How can some Dutch national register Thai genetics, or Afghani? The DEA is the pharmaceutical industries Gestapo?"

​Sometimes conflicting and other times argumentative cases are made for the future of cannabis as other authors' works are including in the book, "the drug war is a big scam, a Ponzi scheme by the pharmaceutical companies. Patenting cannabis is like patenting corn and all the products it makes, and then telling me I can't grow corn in my backyard. How do you patent nature, restrict people's access to it and then charge them to use it while you are making a big profit? I propose the national government nationalize this new fledgling marijuana industry as a cooperative nationwide network of American people, not corporations. This reasoning is based on two counts: We, the people of the U.S., own the first patent on this plant since back in 2003. This should be reparation to the people, to try to heal the 75-year war we have waged on ourselves out of ignorance. How about we, the American people, win for once? GW Pharmaceuticals is really part of a conglomeration of international pharmaceutical corporations that just patented a plant you can grow in your backyard and will control its use in cancer treatment. They will be fracking apart the plant and selling it back to you piecemeal in different cannabanoid ratios that they now own the rights to. I'm sure they have our best interests at heart". Controversial, complex, irreverent, and bold, we are asked to look, once again, to history, not the flash pan of big capital gobbling up profits for itself at the expense of accurate narrative. Listen to the Author here : KLCC : NPR for Oregonians